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Apr 30, 2009 9:08 am US/Central

'U' Prepares To Build Iron Range Physics Lab

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ― The University of Minnesota will soon break ground on a new underground physics lab on the Iron Range designed to detect neutrinos.

The university, the U.S. Department of Energy and other political and scientific leaders will break ground Friday on the multi-million dollar experiment near Orr.

It's called the NuMI Off-Axis Electron Neutrino Appearance Experiment, or NoVA. The Energy Department has allocated $45 million to excavate and prepare the site.

Sixty to 75 locals will work on site development, which university physics professor and project leader Marvin Marshak expects to finish by fall 2010.

Neutrinos are probably the most common subatomic particle in the universe that has mass, but little is known about them.

Soudan Underground Laboratory detects two kinds of neutrinos, the NoVA lab will study the third.

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